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...paper presented at the University of Chicago last Thursday. Dunlop argued that the Administration wastes its energy by reviewing all major wage and price changes with oversimplified guidepost standards. Instead, he said, the government should work with labor and management in certain "bottleneck" industries to prevent inflationary rises...
Government officials then could meet with labor and management in the "bottleneck" sectors and suggest specialized anti-inflationary policies which fit the specific industries...
...Never in History." As for Ford's criticism of the supply bottleneck, McNamara told the Senate committee: "It is absurd. We are supplying fresh meat and fresh vegetables to feed our troops. We are supplying 9.2 pounds per man per day of PX supplies. How could you talk of a shipping shortage under those conditions?" The Defense Secretary also pointed out that the U.S. had moved 100,000 men 10,000 miles in less than four months-a feat unprecedented in military logistics. There are now 325,000 combat-ready U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, 245,000 of them...
...project was made possible by a traffic study several years ago that recommended the elimination of the bottleneck caused by the conversion of thre roads in front of Littauer...
...economy reasons, McNamara also held down the Army's program to strengthen its helicopter force; now there is a crash drive on to form new helicopter units. Most serious of all-considering McNamara's reputation as an administrator and planner-is the giant logistics bottleneck in Viet Nam that is backing up ships and their precious military cargoes as far as Japan and slowing the U.S. war effort (TIME, Dec. 24). If McNamara knows anything, say his critics, he should know about logistics...